There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.
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And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is.
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A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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Hell is God’s great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
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You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
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The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
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Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.
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If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
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Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.
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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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The word ‘good’ has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
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Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.
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